Today people are hearing about information superhighways and the intermet .   Is this change going to be beneficial for theindividuals like you and me .   Yes , I think so . My friend once used it mostly to play chess , but now he has learnt how to do other things on the Internet .   There's no doubt the Internet will be a powerful commercial medium . It'll connect hundreds of millions of customers and open up huge markets for all kinds of products and services .   That's true . I can imagine companies sending advertisements directly to customers over the net . Customers , in turn , can examine and compare whatever goods they want to buy and tell their computers to find them at the best price offered .   Yeah . It'll be a shoppers heaven . That's the use of net in E-commerce . 